Line-holder.



No. 814,808. PATENTED MAR. 13, 1906. T. A. SEITZ.

LINE HOLDER.

APPLIGATION FILED MAR.15, 1905.

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THEODORE A. SEITZ, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

LINE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatenteo'l March 13, 1906.

Application filed March 15, 1905. Serial No. 250,167.

' full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in line-holders, and more particularly to the same for holding clothes-lines and the like; and its object is to provide a cheap and serviceable device that can be made of stamped sheet metal, to provide a device that will hold the line in two diflerent ositions, as occasion requires, and to provi e the device with various new and useful features hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is aside elevation of the device with the line rove' through the same; Fig. 2, a front elevation of the same; Fi 3 a side elevation of the device with the b1 ht of the line inserted laterally in the same; ig. 4 a front elevation of the same; Fig. 5, a horizontal section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 1.

Like numbers refer to like parts in all of the figures.

The bed-plate of the device consists of a substantially rectangular middle portion 1, having upwardly e extended and divergin portions 2 2 and a downwardly-extende rounded portion 3, each extension being provided with suitable openings for screws to secure the bedlat-e to any suitable support. At each side 0 the middle portion 1 is aflange 4, bent at right angles to the bed-plate and projecting outward in parallel planes. These flanges are widest at the upper end and taper downward and near the upper end are provided with opposing segmental openings 5, the apex of each opening being downward and one. side of the opening parallel with the bed-plate. A grippm -lever is pivoted in these openin s, the body portion 601 which is substantia y in the form of a portion of a hollow truncated cone and provided at the upper end with upwardl -extended ortions.

orns 7 to embrace an retain the ine and a concave and rounded portion 10 therebetween to support the line without chafing the same. Projecting from each side of'this lever are outwardly-extended portions 8 of the plate forming the lever and having a width substantially equal to the radial dimensions of the openings 5, whereby ivot-lugs are formed of sufiicient strengtl f from sheet metal. These lugs rest in the lower angles of said 0 enings and are pivoted therein and turn in the openings about their lower edges. A laterally-extended gripper 9 is formed on the lower end of the lever and provided with a convex inner surface to engage the line and clamp the same against the bed-plate. This gripper 9 and the bed plate opposite the same are corrugated transversely to more effectually hold the line.

In operation the line may be rove through the device by insertin the end downward between the lever and ed-plate, as in Figs. 1 and 2. It is sometimes desirable, however, to be able to hold the middleportion or bight of the line without reeving a considerable ortion of the line through the device, in w 'ch event the line may be inserted laterally between the ipper and bedlate and thence extended a ongside of the ever and placed between projections 7 and resting on the rounded edge 10. It can be thus secured by this device, if so desired, without the delay and trouble of hauling one end of the line through the device.

A line that is spliced in a closed circuit can also thus be inserted and held, which would not be possible with the arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In either arrangement the outward and .downward pull on the lever by enga ement of the line with its upper concave end rmly clamps and holds the line between the gripper 9 and the bed-plate 1.

When the line is inserted laterally, as in Figs. 3 and 4, the lower part of the flan e brings opposite the end of the gri per, holds the line in place under the end of tlie gripper, and whep'arranged as in Fi s. 1 and 2 the concave lower end of the lever olds the line from lateral displacement. I

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

1. In a line-holder, a sheet-metal structure comprising a bed-plate, parallel flanges rojecting at right angles from the opposite sides of the bed-plate and providedwith sectorshaped openings, a lever having the form of the portion of a hollow truncated cone, and

oppositely-projecting flat lugs on the lever and pivotal y engaging the lowerangles' of the openings in the flanges.

2. In a line-holder, a bed-plate, means for securing the bedlate to a support, flanges at each side of t e bed-plate, and having sector-shaped openin s, a lever having the form of a portion of a ollow truncated cone, fiat lugs at each side of the lever and engaging the openings in the flanges, upward projections on the upper end of the lever, a rounded concave portion between the said projections and a laterally-projecting gripper on the lower end of the lever. a

3. A line-holder consisting of a sheet-metal bed-plate having a rectangular middle ortion, diverging upper extensions an a rounded lower extension, said extension having openings for screws, flanges at each side of the bed-plate, sector-shaped openings in the flanges, a sheet-metal lever having the form of a portion of a hollow truncated cone,

upwardlyrojecting portions on the upper end of the ever, a concave and rounded middle ortion between said portions;flat outwardl -bent lugs on the lever and pivoted at their edges in the lower angles of the openings in the flanges, and a laterally-projecting gripper on the lower end of the lever and havmg a convex inner surface to en age a line.

4. In a lin -holder, the com ination of a bedlate having flanges provided with sector-s aped o enlngs, each opening arranged with one ra ial side parallel with the bedplate, a sheet-metal lever having the form of a portion of a hollow truncated cone, upweirdly-projecting portions on the u per end of the lever, a rounded concave mi dle portion on said end, an outwardly-bent lug at each side of the lever, each-lug having a wldth substantially equal to the radial dimensions of the flange-opening, and pivoted at its lower edge. in the lower angle of the ;said flangeopening and'a laterallyrojecting gripper on the ower end of the ever, said ripper also having a convex and corrugate inner surface opposite the bed-plate.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THEODORE A. SEITZ.

Witnesses:

L. V. MoULToN, GEORGIANA OHAcE. 

